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walls, like this one in the Bahamas, serve to protect areas of human habitation, conservation and leisure activities from the action of tides and waves. (Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS.)

Bahamas Builds Resilience Against a Surging Sea

By Desmond Brown NASSAU, (IPS) — Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have championed the phrase “1.5 to stay alive” in demanding that global temperature increases be kept as far below 1.5…

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Cattle seek refuge from the searing heat among shrubbery in Union Island, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (Credit: Kenton X. Chance/IPS)

Prolonged drought leaves Caribbean farmers broke and worried

By Kenton X. Chance CASTRIES, Jun 2 2015 (IPS) – St. Lucian farmer Anthony Herman was hoping that next year he’d manage to recoup some of the losses he sustained after…

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